The locally famous Waffles cafe on the corner of Fitzroy Street and Gold Street, 1980s, by Roy Hammans (the-golden-fleece.co.uk)

Waffles, 62 – 64 Fitzroy Street / 1 Gold Street, Cambridge

Iconic Cambridge Breakfast Spot

1851

Samuel Crane, 43, hair dresser, b Essex

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1871

Hannah Matthews, widow, 57, dressmaker, b Adington

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1913

G P Hawkins, bakers and confectioners

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Waffles restaurant stood here from 1973-1981 run by Canadian couple Pat and Virginia La Charite.

See also entry on Gold Street

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1970 –

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1972 empty

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1973-1981 Waffles

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1980 03 14

Waffles’ waffles have been selling like hot cakes in Cambridge for seven years. Now the small Kite café has been mentioned in the Egon Ronay guide Just a Bite. “Queues of hungry students form outside the door every evening at this most welcoming of little cafés,” it writes. But Waffles’ days at its present address are numbered because the little shop on the corner of Gold Street and Fitzroy Street is marked for demolition as part of the Kite redevelopment programme. Set in a devastated urban wasteland of rubble and decaying brick, the café, with its steamy windows, Edwardian interior and babbling conversation, provides a friendly island of humanity. 80 03 14d

Credit: Mike Petty, Fitzroy Street Cambridge Scrapbook 1897 to 1990.

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After the Grafton Centre development Waffles moved to a new location on Castle Hill until the late 1980s.

See more information and photos at http://www.iankitching.me.uk/history/cam/waffles.html
and https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/cambridge-waffles-caf-history-graftoncentre-19444594